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ORKHON INSCRIPTIONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ORKHON See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

INSCRIPTIONS , See also:

ancient See also:

TURKISH

Turkish See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions of the 8th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D., discovered near the See also:

RIVER

river Orkhon to the See also:

south of See also:

Lake See also:

BAIKAL (known to the Mongols as Dalai-nor, and to the Turkish tribes as Bai-kul)

Baikal in 1889 . They are written in an See also:

ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

alphabet derived from an Aramaic source and recount the See also:

HISTORY

history of the See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

TURKS

Turks or Tu-kiue of See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese historians . See TURKS .

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